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pasta and video 2003-02-05 - 1:31 p.m. BF and I went out to dinner at Isabella's. I had the shrimp and red pepper pasta which was excellent and which I suspect could be copied by a sufficiently energetic person. I had two glasses of wine and quickly got silly. Later we watched The Last Castle, which told the tale of how the wily prisoner, a former army general, played the evil warden to bring about his complete undoing. It was very entertaining, and BF and I got extra ego-boosts because we figured out the trick ending a little bit before it actually arrived. We didn't figure it out too soon, or we would have been pissed. We figured it out at just the right time to feel pleased with ourselves without spoiling the surprise. A movie has a tough row to hoe with me. If I figure it out too quickly, it's too easy, bad movie, predictable movie. If I figure it out from the trailer -- as was the case with The Sixth Sense, then it's a bad, bad, baddddd bad movie. If when I figure it out, it's with a sinking feeling of "Oh Brother," then it's also a bad bad bad movie. An example would be Jacob's Ladder, where I'm sitting there saying, "Now don't tell he's dead, because that would be too stupid for an entire full-length movie, oh God, I can't believe they're doing this old trick." And the sad thing is, they keep doing it -- movies like The Sixth Sense and The Others are proof enough of that. I have a clue for film directors. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was written quite a few years ago now, and everyone on planet Earth knows the plot. So there is no use doing it all over again unless you actually have something different or original to offer like, say, Mulholland Drive. But if you honestly think that I'm going to be impressed by someone jumping out and going, "Boo, they're all dead," well, I'm not. I'd be a disaster in the movie business, that's for sure. Shaggy dog stories make bazillions. I'm afraid to think how much money The Sixth Sense made. It's like with Philip K. Dick movies. I have a near complete collection of his novels and a complete collection of his short stories. I never in a million years would have picked out lesser works like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, "I Can Remember It For You Wholesale," or "Minority Report" for major motion picture treatment. Yet, Blade Runner, Total Recall (which was based on ICRIFYW), and Minority Report were extremely successful movies, and Minority Report should be singled out as spectacularly evocative of the PKD universe. Picking out a story that adapts well to the movies is not as easy as picking out a great story, obviously. And picking out a story and then making it into a movie and then pleasing me, me, me, well, that's really tough. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford